The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 7o}s@TS5lc.
Corn-No. 9, S61l@361zc. Oats-No. = 301ac-
Rye-No. l. 55c. Barley-No. 2, 5915c.
Wittenberg, Shawano County, has or
! phan asylums for Norwegians and Ger
mans and will soon have one for Indians.
John Griffin, who killed Charles Lander
In the county jail at Madison few days
ago. tas been held for mauslaughter. Both
were tramps and the fatal blow was struck
with piece of stove-wood.
During the past five years six pairs of
| twins have been born on tho University
hill at Eau Claire
Alderman Hanishefski was recently
fined ten dollars at Milwaukee for being
drunk and disorderly.
The business men of Eau Claire are going
to open their hearts and pocket-books and
build several large sheds for the use of the
farmers who trade in that city.
The lun1bermen in Burnett County are
greatly impeded in their work by snow,
which is nearly tour feet deep.
The Common Council of Eau Claire has
decided to build another bridge across the
| Chippewa silver at that place, and two new
bridges are now projected, both of which
| replace structures carried away by the
| food of 1884.
The new steam-barge Josephine was re-
Gently sold at Milwaukee to j. Elphic1e
and other Chicagoans for $4,000.
| Malignant pneumonia prevails to an
alarming extent in Milwaukee DIR. Will
lam Thorndikc prominent physician,
died few days ago of the disease, which
| he contracted while attending a patient
similarly afflicted.
| Governor Rusk has appointed P. H.
Smith, of Rice's Lake, State Timber Agent.
Frederick Engell, employed in a whole
| sale dry-goods establishment at Mlwau-
kee, forty-five years old, and owner of sew
eral houses and lots in the city, pleaded
guilty the other day to a charge of grand
larceny and was sentenced to one years
Imprisonment.
A new residence belonging to Harry
! Dreyer, travelling agent of a Chicago mer-
| camille house, was burned at Waukesha
few days ago. Mrs. Dreyer was alone in
the house, and, on awakening, was nearly
strangled by the smoke and escaped with
! great difficulty. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
! 81, 600.
| The Tomahawk Boom Company's fore
man, at the Forks, near Merrill, Lincoln
| County, was blown sixty feet by the pre-
mature explosion of a dynamite cartridge
the other day. His trousers were torn
away and his left leg filed with dirt and
stones. His face and neck were terribly
| bruised.
Three large grain elevators are about to
be erected at West Superior, Douglas
| County, on the land of the Omaha railroad.
| Patrick Foran, who was arrested a few
| days ago at La Crosse for having voted be-
| fore he had been in the State one year, was
| discharged after a trial in which there was
lack of evidence.
James Mahoney, a freight conductor on
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
! fell from his train the other day and was
! instantly killed. He was an unmarried
man anil was about twenty-six years OF
age. His home was in GAINESVILLE.
The leading mines on the Gogebic range
rank as follows: Colby, Norrie, Aurora:
Ashland, Iron King, East Norrie, Ironton,
Pabst, Germania, Montreal, Kakagon, Sun
day Lake, Puritan, Trimble, Brothertod
and Odanah. There are many Others com.
| ing to the front rapidly.
! James Cotter who for twenty-seven
! years had worked in the paper-mill now
| owned by the Beloit Straw Board COmpa-
ny, was drowned at early hour the other
morning by falling from platform into the
water under the mill.
! A jury at Madison recently gave Sarah
! A. Angle judgment for 1851 ,965 against the
! Chicago, Portage & Lake Superior rail
road, for violation of contract.
| Green Bay agriculturists and owners OF
fast horses have purchased several acres
| of land just outside the city limits, OF
which they propose to erect buildings for
fair purposes and to construct magnif-
cent race-track. 1t is expected that every
thing will be completed in time for gen.
eral blowout on the Fourth of July.
Eau Claire buyers pay thirty cents
| bushel for oats.
A new linen factory is about to be started
up at Appleton.
| A Milwaukee compositor lives on crack
ers and cheese and has saved $4,000.
| A large gray wolf was recently trapped
| on the premises of a farmer named Nichols,
| just south of Beloit.
Frederick Koehn's feed-store at Sheboy-
gan was damaged by fire the other day to
the extent of $500. No insurance.
A young man giving the name of Henry
Poehlman, Chicago, las been extensively
working forged-order game upon the
merchants of Milwaukee for some time
past, but was recently arrested His plan
| was to present forged orders from some
well-known business house for goods at q
store.
Mrs Paul Klumb, of Sevastopol, Docs
County, saved a little daughter from being
| burned to death a few days ago by throw
ing her into a snow bank.
August Kruchske, who is worth $4,000
| to $4,000, has a wife and seven children at
! Appleton whom he has neglected to sup.
! port for several months. II is said that he
has another family in the northern part of
the State. He will be compelled to return
| to Appleton and make better provision for
his family at that place.
Colonel Burr Robbins regal Bengal tiger
is no more, he having gone to the happy
hunting grounds. Colonel Robbins says
| there will probably not be another one in
this country. They are expensive Injuries,
costing 5000 The Colonel says he will
have the tigers skin stuffed or made into
house mat
Mrs. Josie Hatchard, wife Of well.
| known physician, charged with petty lar
ceny, was acquitted at Milwaukee a few
/ days ago.
John K P. Porter, prominent stock
raiser of Porter, Rock County, made an
assignment recently for the benefit of his
creditors. The unsecured claims amount
| to over 81, 600, mainly small notes held by
IdEuI6Fo anu HSy-lOduGFo dDOuG
ty His two large farms are in the town
of Porter, from which he raised cattle last
year valued at $1,000 The farms are
mortgaged at $4,000. 1t was thought the
creditors would not realize over twenty
five per cent.
According to the official returns from the
Eighth Congressional district Haugen's
(Rep.) majority in the recent election was
1855. Price Rep) received 1854 votes
moro than his competitor for the short
term.
1t is said that the pastor of the Marinette
Baptist Church, Rev. W. R. Waters, hav-
| ing grown unpopular on account of his &C.
centricities, the majority Of the members
have temporarily withdrawn, leaving but
seven to preach to. Mr.. Waters announced
his intention tc preach in spite Of the boy
colt of his pensioners, even though they
declare they will pay him nothing for his
| services.
The County Board of La Crosse a few